Saskatchewan environment minister crying foul on fined hunter

Saskatchewan's environment minister is crying foul on an outfitter who was fined for wasting edible game after a hunting trip near Wadena.

U.S. citizen Sykes Mitchell owns Living Sky Outfitters. Government officials say he lead an expedition of hunters that shot over 300 geese in the Wadena area back in May of 2009.

While Mitchell had hired two teenage boys to clean the birds and pack their breast meat, the bulk of the animal carcasses were dumped in a farmer's field.

While many were destroyed, nearly half were deemed whole, edible, and wasted.

Dustin Duncan says there's no excuse for that. “It's the responsibility of the hunter to know what their ability is to hunt and then to take the meat from their birds,” he told reporters at the Legislature in Regina Thursday.

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“To leave any type of wildlife in a field without taking what has value is just completely unacceptable.”

Mitchell was fined $4,200 for wasting the viable birds. Duncan insists the case is an aberration, stressing that most hunters and outfitters in Saskatchewan are responsible.

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